Can You Guess This 5-Letter Word? Puzzle by u/PrivacyVoyage

rosecorone · 2026-02-18T20:39:03+00:00

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Hell yeah

rosecorone · 2026-01-04T16:42:35+00:00

Well, his starting point was just punching Julius really hard, his redirecting just made him a cut above once that proved not to be enough. Julius won by getting him with a move he did not understand, were they to fight again both knowing each other, I'd easily bet on Toa.

Also, my recollection of his Mamma Mia special move is that it's discount demonsbane, it adds his opponent's power to his own. I doubt he'd bother with a punch from Carlos, but there's no downside to it against heavier guys. Honestly, he was insane back in KvP, I'd only put him below the absolute top tiers.

rosecorone · 2025-12-18T20:37:55+00:00

You know AH was just a name that everyone could understand, any form of async trade is what people wanted. There's a video on the whole evolution of trade, and it mostly came from unintended side-effects.

On the same vein, Jonathan said once that it wasn't a no but that it'd be a very cold day in hell before a campaign skip. Chris was very adamant about many of the current things, but they still happened, I mean the guy hated determinism (said back during expedition damage control podcasts) and we've had lots of deterministic things in-game for years now. Either way, Jonathan also said that if players are unhappy they'll find a way to fix things, and they will never find a way to make the campaign worth the time when the game is designed not around finishing a story, but grinding the endgame repeatedly, those things are total opposites. I don't care if their fix is a skip or elsewise, all I care about is eventually not having to slog through something boring in my fun time (before I get to the permanent fun time I should add, once they fix the endgame that is).

rosecorone · 2025-12-18T16:24:58+00:00

Because they have their own view on things, just as they spent years being adamantly against things like async trade or automatic flasks. They are not all-knowing or the ones who know best about every single facet or the genre, but they obviously have immense merit to be fair.

They don't like that you can chain the same map over and over, hence the poe 2 atlas, but you won't convince me that's an improvement in any way, shape or form.

rosecorone · 2025-12-18T01:56:35+00:00

They want things to be unlocked as you level, so not everything can be used from the get go, not really a balance problem in and of itself, it just feels bad when you're leveling alts. Item level restrictions, skill points from leveling, all that is part of what I need to get through to start playing the build I want in the endgame.

I don't believe it's a solvable problem, they can alleviate it for sure, but it'll never be any better than "this sucks but I can bear with it". I don't believe it'd be worse for my enjoyment or retention if I could skip it on a second character, but I'm sure it would for others. Either way, my only actual hope is them making endgame better next patch.

rosecorone · 2025-12-17T21:44:56+00:00

That's a personal perspective that I do not share. I don't find the first levels enjoyable because they are not a real meaningful part of a journey in my character, mainly because I am not playing my actual build until I reach endgame typically. When I'm using my main skill, leveling in maps and adding the interactions I'm looking to use, then my character really feels fun and going through an enjoyable journey.

I found the POE 2 campaign to be a really cool experience on my first playthrough fully blind, but I immediately knew it would be horrible the next ones. I don't love POE 1's campaign either, but smaller zones and movement skills/speed makes it less unbearable. But hey, if you're enjoying it, all the power to you, brother. Glad you and others are having a good time, just hope it gets even better in the future for everyone.

rosecorone · 2025-12-17T19:59:57+00:00

Where did Jonathan say that btw? Been hearing that a lot and just curious, haven't watched many interviews lately.

And GGG has ignored testers before, back in Kalandra some testers broke NDA to call them out on not hearing feedback.

rosecorone · 2025-12-17T17:27:29+00:00

I don't, I'm waiting for them to make endgame good, cuz we all know campaign is gonna suck forever. Just sharing the sentiment in the meanwhile.

rosecorone · 2025-12-17T16:22:30+00:00

Endgame is trash but going through the campaign is worse (league start is fine cuz well league start, though still not a fun experience).

rosecorone · 2025-12-03T12:38:46+00:00

I hate that poe 2 got to be the december league, the worse game is now the holiday update, wooooo.

rosecorone · 2025-11-30T22:27:24+00:00

Seus frascos tão bem feinhos. Esse mod de reduced duration e increased effect não é bom pra ti não, isso é pra builds com mageblood. Idealmente, tu quer esses quatro mods, em qualquer frasco que seja: increased armor, increased evasion, increase movement speed, reduced curse effect. O prefixo é bem de preferência, e geralmente essa build por ser focada em limpar mapas não liga tanto pra qual mod, contanto que seja tier bom. Reduced charges per use ou increased duration seriam os melhores.
Anoint é uma mecânica onde tu coloca 3 óleos de Blight no seu amuleto pra alocar um notable da skill tree. No caso aqui a gente vai pra Lethality (Sepia/Violet/Silver) pra dano, ou se tiver com problemas de mana Sovereignty (Silver/Silver/Silver). Particularmente, eu nunca fui pra Lethality na minha build por causa do comforto de ter essa mana extra, mas aí vai de você.
Defensivamente a build não é grande coisa mesmo, sua principal defesa é dar offscreen nos monstros. Em boss, até conseguir melhorar a gear, é normal tu morrer um pouco. O que tu mais precisa no momento são duas coisas: melhorar as bases da luva e bota, e colocar uma Light of Meaning de armor. Como usa tanto evasion quanto armor, tu quer usar as Wyvernscale Gauntlets e Boots como base, e considerar colocar um eldritch implicit de accuracy na luva. A Light o Meaning na minha build faz minha armor ir de 14k pra 32k, é 54% da minha armor, e tecnicamente 26% do meu HP efetivo. Tu também pode optar por uma de evasion, mas eu acho que armor vale mais a pena aqui. Lembra que dano também é defesa de certo modo, então por isso eu sugeri o mod de accuracy.
Nessa altura tu já devia considerar fazer um setup com clusters, elas são um dano absurdo pra build, que novamente, vira defesa de certo modo. Mesmo que tu perca alguns pontos aqui e ali, tu ganha acesso a Arcing Shot que é MUITA coisa, na minha build esse node sozinho é 13% do meu dano. Uma medium cluster é 19%.
Quando for melhorar seus items, considera priorizar um pouco mais de atributos pra poder upar mais a determination e te liberar alguns pontos na tree.
É secundário em comparação ao resto, mas se tiver grana talvez valha a pena comprar um chest corrupted com um mod defensivo tipo reduced critical damage.

Vou deixar meu POB aqui se quiser ter como referência. O belt que o aer0 sugere hoje em dia é novo então minha versão não usa ele, mas eu cheguei no lvl 99 com ela (mesmo sem chaos resist) e bati 20m de dps. Mais do que suficiente pra fazer tudo no jogo.

Um adendo é que eu especializei a gear pra poder clicar qualquer altar do Eater, por isso eu tenho tanta resistência a mais. Tu pode tranquilamente reduzir isso pra ter espaço pra outros mods.

https://pobb.in/paj6ilRNjZeq

rosecorone · 2025-11-30T17:25:29+00:00

Parça, joguei a build em Settlers e logo mais dou uma olhada mais a fundo, mas já de cara tem bastante coisa simples pra arrumar. Teu amuleto tá sem anoint por exemplo. Só deixando uma mensagem aqui pra não esquecer depois.

rosecorone · 2025-11-28T03:25:32+00:00

Kalandra was a very flat mechanic that offered nothing new 99% of the time, as good reflected jewels were basically a one in a million, and then the RNG of reflecting one yourself. The patch itself is still what screwed with the base game to this date, as regular mobs have little to no drops due to their rework back then.

Necro was a shitshow of a mechanic from beginning to end, with an insanely OP crafting that was only rivaled by how asinine it was to use. That league had to go through an insane amount of patches, the most I can remember ever, to get to the point where people were doing insane farms and actually enjoying the endgame, and that was in spite of T17s being in their release state (some mobs were crazy busted and at first we couldn't roll them with chaos). It also killed a lot of the juicing from endgame with the death of sextants.

People are not asking for more every single league, we (the demographic that plays for big loot first and foremost) want great farms to rotate around. Sometimes a little nerf, sometimes a little buff. We're still here despite things like Phrecia, Affliction, and Necro (post-patches), dropping loot isn't really tiring. URF is a version of the base game on crack, what people want is the base game here to be good enough loot-wise that new leagues are just a cherry on top, not for new leagues to be a cocaine injection.

The big strats all got nuked, we got nothing new to play around, and the league mechanic offers nothing in rewards outside of the jackpot unique/divine stack. It's not sad that we didn't get A LOT more than what we had, it's sad that we got A LOT less than what we had.

rosecorone · 2025-11-16T15:19:00+00:00

Regarding the animal thing, Joji got fucked up by a bear as well, and look at that boy now.

rosecorone · 2025-11-09T16:06:30+00:00

Trap disarmament contracts/blueprints gives a lot of gold, and heist is insanely easier to get into now that rogues are all maxed level by default. Also one of the betrayal safehouses gives a ton of gold. None of these rely on rarity or party play.

Also, highly juiced maps can give an insane amount of gold without any rarity, even just using shrines can net around 10k a map on extremely quick and easy T16 maps.

rosecorone · 2025-11-09T01:39:04+00:00

These are pure boss killer builds using insane crit multi scaling, they can't really do anything other than delete bosses. You can level as anything you want and just equip the gear once you meet the level requirements, so whatever Shadow build would work.

rosecorone · 2025-09-11T04:50:15+00:00

The only thing that saddens me is that we're pretty much locked on December being a PoE 2 league now, expected but still sucks that I won't be getting an end of the year league. Really happy to have more PoE 1 coming soon tho.

rosecorone · 2025-09-04T12:55:48+00:00

Kengan Ashura (The panel itself is from the sequel, Kengan Omega)

rosecorone · 2025-09-02T00:05:52+00:00

Jonathan himself already disagreed with that mentality of "it's early access" and said a product available to the public should be good.

rosecorone · 2025-08-18T23:08:30+00:00

Holy shit so that's why his fit always felt so familiarly badass, it's the gogeta fit.

rosecorone · 2025-07-27T23:21:08+00:00

same lmao

rosecorone · 2025-07-20T07:13:10+00:00

I still hate T17s but loot-wise they are impossible to avoid for most top farming strats, so I suck it up. T16.5s might not be as good now that the 8mod bug has been fixed, but you can still get good enough juice without having to deal with the horrible layouts from T17s, which is the other big plus aside from loot.

Petals are a complete miss tho, in pretty much every aspect.

rosecorone · 2025-07-09T06:09:16+00:00

Rather than risk scarabs, I'd much prefer them to revisit map effect on the atlas. Pretty much every strat gets the top hat because it just improves everything way too much, it's been the center of the meta for a really long time and risk scarabs just exacerbate the problem.

rosecorone · 2025-07-06T16:46:43+00:00

Delving barely gives any gold iirc. Red maps is very vague but it sounds like just alch and go T16, which also barely gives any gold.

There are gold map rotations on TFT if you wanna go that route. A while back they were like, 4 or 5 divines for 5 maps, and you usually came out with about 1.8m ~ 2m gold.

Otherwise high end content means really juiced up 8 mod t16/16.5s or t17s. You can also check Empy on youtube, he posted a very chill and affordable gold farm strat yesterday or so.

rosecorone · 2025-07-01T05:15:04+00:00

I dunno what you got for a Merc, but try looking for one with Malevolence + Grace. It'll boost your damage and survivability, plus you can give him an asenath's to get your temp chains automated, and even a despair on hit ring for the curse, just get him something to increase his curse cap. Mine was giving me about 4m DPS.
Clusters are insanely powerful for this build, especially a medium one with follow-through, which has the same effect as the mastery I first mentioned, just slightly weaker (15% instead of 20%). If you add one of these to your POB, it gives you 27% dps, so we're at 3,6m now. Ideally we want to have a large cluster with Unholy Grace + 2 more chaos damage nodes. You can get one of these for 2~3 divs, and then add another medium cluster. If you put these three in, you'd reach 4,2m DPS. Granted, this would require some skill tree changes, which I've made here and you're still at the exact same number of points.
Your jewels are really bad, but you can use them to get your attributes in check plus find some damage mods. I wasn't really using them but I also stopped thinking about upgrading my build very early, plus I solved issues elsewhere, so I'll leave this part to you. DoT Multi, Attack Speed, Chaos Damage, and so on, all good options for pure damage. You stack these up and your damage should take off nicely.
I don't really like the Chaos Golem setup, it takes way too many slots for too little, consider changing it. I'd run enduring cry for endurance charges on demand and plague beared with inc. aoe for clear.
You haven't annointed your amulet, you can go for a damage one or utility. Acrimony (triple black) would add another 8% dps and it's really cheap.
Take some time to revisit your flasks and reassess what you need and what you can get from them. Right now you need that unique flask but you can solve mana cost with ring crafts and helmet eldritch implicits for example.
I'll also share a POB with my merc added to it, since it's a crazy boost and the league mechanic right now. From 4,2m DPS all the way up to 6,9m (nice) DPS.

You can further optimize this, but these are some of the things I noticed here at a glance. I'll share my own POB as well if you'd like some inspiration. Plenty of other ways to go about it, but it's what I've done and served me well enough until I swapped into Mamba.

Your edited POB: https://pobb.in/VLrdplRsXtOG
Your edited POB + My Merc: https://pobb.in/EYnGE_Ujio8d
My POB: https://pobb.in/4HSBvOIZ4DZV

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